 | | Book | | this purpose; Mrs Pat Simpson for the coronet of agate and topaz, Bert Scheps, F.G.A.A. for opal and carnelian...Printing Co Ltd, Tokyo. National Library of Australia Cataloguing in Publication data Perry, Nance Australian...colourbook series). ISBN 0 589 07012 6. I. Gems - Australia - Identification. I. Perry, Ron.joint author....wish to learn about the minerals and gems of Australia. PREFACE gemmologists, mineralogists in a specialised... It will travel throughout the backblocks of Australia and through the museums of our capital cities |  | | Report (issue) | | 5. List of Papers, p. 7. Australia generally New South Wales Victoria : Queensland Subject Index...Index, p. 60; : Subject Index, p. 86 : Western Australia Locality Index, p. 75. Locality Index, p. 95...95. ; Subject Index, p. 102; South Australia: Tasmania: : . Locality Index, p. 110. Subject Index...a different name. Agam, in a new country like Australia, it is often necessary to christen a new mining...occurrences. A case in point may be cited from South Australia. Wulfenite is recorded from “ Mount Lyndhurst |  | | Book | | revise) © 1976, 1985, 1992 Reader’s Digest (Australia) Pty Limited © 1992 Reader’s Digest (New Zealand)...& Geophysics. Published by Reader’s Digest (Australia) Pty Limited 26-32 Waterloo Street, Surry Hills...citrine and above is a polished thunder egg of agate. Contents Page 4 6 8 14 34 36 46 48 50 What...identification Prospecting for gold Gemstone areas of Australia The collector's gear Polishing and cutting Fossicking...minerals are widely distributed over the surface of Australia, but some areas, because of different geological |  | | Book | | S. Director of the Geological Survey of Victoria, Australia. ILLUSTRATED BY 250 FIGURES GEORGE ROBERTSON...thanks are tendered. E. J. D. "ROSENEATH," KEW, VICTORIA, 2ND JANUARY, 1911. to CONTENTS CHAPTER I...pebbles to the drifts, as well as amygdules of agate, chalcedony and jasper. These latter have become...Derrinal glacial conglomerate, near Bendigo, Australia, exhibit the sharpest and clearest scorings and...found at Bendigo, tary rocks, slaty conglomerate Victoria, it is evident that when the dark clay that now |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Glaciation in S. Africa, Australia, and Tasmania. 11 Hauer 1 and allies, and Coeloderoceras, gen. nov...European facies. Glaciation in South Africa, Australia, and Tasmania. By E. J. DUNN, F.G.S. T)ERUSAL...of data relating to Satiation in South Africa, Australia, and Tasmania by the writer might not be out of...conglomerate at Wooragee and Eldorado, near Beechworth, Victoria, Australia, excited my interest, but its glacial...by Richard Daintree in 1866. My sketch map of Beechworth Parish was made in this year, and published by |  | | Journal (volume) | | MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY ROYAL SOCIETY OF VICTORIA. TRANSACTIONS PBOCESDINGS OF THE §0pl %mi\i...communications for transmission to tlie Royal Society of Victoria from parts of Eiu-ope should be sent. all /t..."Transactions of now issued to the Members, Society of Victoria/' the Royal brings the Proceedings of the Society...D., Professor of Anatomy, Melbourne Art. I. Victoria On V. On 29-34 34-44 University IV. 15-29...15-29 the Discovery of Cretaceous Fossils in Australia, by Frederick M'Coy, Professor of Natural Science |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | collection, Russell G. Rizzo photo. P least partly agate; they typically are color banded when cut or broken...considered a type of geode. In some instances the agate may be very colorful. The surfaces of a polyhedroid...that might appear in the literature are pseudo-agate, polyhydrolithe, and polyhedric quartz, but I have...in Cornejo and Bartonrelli (2010): pseudo-agate, Paraíba-agate, and polygonal quartz. crystalline quartz...first stage of growth was often followed by banded agate—in the case of that seen in figure 6, first dark |  | | Book | | Survey Report 102 Industrial minerals and rocks of Victoria I. W. McHaffie & R. W. Buckley 1995 Geological...Survey Report 102 Industrial minerals and rocks of Victoria I. W. McHaffie & R. W. Buckley 1995 Bibliographic...and rocks of Victoria. Geological Survey of Victoria Report 102. Crown (State of Victoria) Copyright...Geological Survey of Victoria ISSN 0817 4725 ISBN 0 7306 7474 6 Keywords: Victoria, industrial minerals...purchased from: Information Victoria, 318 Little Bourke Street, Melbourne Victoria 3000. or Business Centre |  | | Report (issue) | | citrine, and amethyst), and chalcedony (including agate). Some of these commodities are recovered but most...Bolivia), river beds, terraces, and colluvium (West Australia), however most are nonglacial alluvial deposits...South Wales, Australia; AUQL-Queenlands, Australia; AUTS-Tasmania, Austrialia; AUVT Victoria, Austrialia;...Austrialia; AUWA--West Austrialia, Australia; BLVA-Bolivia; BRZL~Brazil: INDO Indonesia; MLYS--Malaysia; MYLA-Myanmar;...Kaew Bangka Island (P.T. Koba Tin) Battle Creek Beechworth-Eldorado Belitung Island (P.T.Tambang Tinah) |  | | Book (edition) | | Sydney Printed in Hong Kong National Library of Australia Card Number and ISBN 0 7018 06613 All rights reserved...cliff and mountain peak. The island continent of Australia is rich in varied natural scenery. The sandstone...sandstone bluffs of Sydney, the Grampians of Victoria, the weird Glasshouse Mountains of Queensland, the wild...the foundation of this wealth. The history of Australia has been dramatically affected by the discovery...the goldfields of New South Wales, Victoria and Western Australia brought great increases in population |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | TAYLOR, Esq., of the late Geological Survey of Victoria. Communicated by It. ETHERIDGE, jun., F.G.S.;...that occurring in most of the Tertiary cements in Victoria. The "cement" forms but a very small proportion...discovery, at the " Welcome rush " near Stawell, Victoria, of a bed of marine littoral fossils overlying...(see Progress Eeport of the Geological Survey of Victoria, No. 3, p. 264) that these fossils were probably...opaque magenta-coloured variety first discovered in Victoria and named after Sir Henry Barkly. 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In Ceylon, India, Burma, Siam, Brazil, Australia, Montana, Siberia, and South Africa— from which...sang the praises and supernatural power of the Agate, the Topaz, the spring-green Jasper, Amber, Chrysolite...was said to bring ill luck to the wearer. Queen Victoria, on the contrary, having no such superstition |  | | Book (edition) | | IV. Chapter VI. Chapter VIII. 178—179 ... Agate 184—185 Bloodstone ... 186—187 ... Red or...Gems, or the of Stones Precious which in Australia, — they loosened in their they South Africa...superstitions confined the to because it was Queen Victoria, stition, has After the Stones the Emerald...praises Topaz, Coral, Even the sang the Agate, each Greek that as of the so-called Emerald... May ... „ .. Jasper. „ .. Sapphire. „ Agate. ... ... .. .. Amethyst. Emerald. „ ... |  | | Journal (issue) | | & power cable. Proudly distributed throughout Australia TM by Macson Trading Company Pty Ltd Tel {0~)...which is roughly a 20minute drive north of Avoca, Victoria, along the Sunraysia Highway, was well renowned...Gold, Gem & Treasure Expo in the Maryborough, Victoria, City Hall on the Saturday and Sunday of the 2003...well catered for with every detector outlet in Victoria, and some interstate, invited to attend. • Gold...been he East Kimberly Gold.fields in Western Australia are well worth a dry-season visit when the weather |  | | Journal (issue) | | hands at 3pm the next day. It came up from South Australia and I Jive in Townsville, Queensland. DIDN 'T...F.I. New World Shipwrecks Goldflelds of South Australia The Echunga Goldfields Video-Weekend Prospecting...book are still included. FOR THE BEST DEALS IN AUSTRALIA, JUST RING OR CALL IN **********************...anywhere in Australia. Visit our well stocked shop situated in the best nugget fields in Australia. Advice... is Wellingrove. This is managed by the Severn Shire. The rest is controlled by the Rural Lands Protection |  | | Book | | made of goodquality material such as amethyst or agate, can compare with much more elaborately cut and...common of these come from the quartz-chalcedony-agate family. Amethyst, cairngorm, carnelian and jasper...off. Polishing a flat surface, such as a slab of agate, is done on a lapping wheel (like the turntable...gemstone hunter there are also very good prospects for agate, carnelian, jasper as well as amethyst, citrine...or transparent. Banding and patterning, as with agate, are particularly pleasing. These features are most |  | | Report (issue) | | British Asia . . . ... .. . . .. (1922) Part V. Australia and New Zealand .. . (1922J Part VI. Europe and...Oeylon • • • ••• ••• India ••• ••• • •• •• • Australia ••• ••• ••• New Zealand • • • ••• •• • South Georgia...bands of oolom--, as for example in malachite and agate. The second qualification of a precious stone, rarity...re d stones as 'rubellite or '' Siberian ruby>,, indigo-blue as indicolite, green stones have sometimes...crystals, and those which, like oJialcedoriy or agate, are made up of an a,g gregate of micros~opic crystals |  | | Journal (issue) | | MINELAB Torrensville Visit our website South Australia 5031 www.mlnelab. com FRONT COVER This 368.64-ounce...fairly rapid development of detector technology in Australia, led by the Minelab Company in Adelaide. That... NEW DETECTORS SENT FREIGHT-FREE ANYWHERE IN AUSTRALIA. MAIL ORDER WELCOME. AUSTRALIAN COLO GEM & TREASURE...size. Scoria is quarried at many locations in Victoria and is a popular garden rock in Melbourne gardens...(melted rock) or Australites as they are known in Australia, are generally found from the Kimberleys, WA, |  | | Book (volume) | | 2. Brazil .... 3. South Africa 4. Borneo 5. Australia 0. North America 7. British Guiana 8. Urals ....486 488 488 488 489 CONTENTS Vll PAGE PAGE Agate (Onyx).511 Cat’s-eye . . . . Tiger-eye. . . 491...338 . 330, 338 cut Precious opal, rough : Australia 375, 382 Fire-opal, rough „ Brazil PLATE XVII...(Facing p. 512.) AGATE. Fig. a. „ 5. Fortification-agate : Oberstein 512, 513 Onyx-agate : Brazil. 512...Ex¬ 252 celsior,” weight 971-J carats. From “ Victoria ” diamond of 4574- carats from South Africa |  | | Journal (issue) | | LIMITED 118 Hayward Avenue, Torrensville South Australia 5031 Telephone: (08) 8238 0888 Facsimile: (08)...chunkier than the flour gold I am used to in my Beechworth expeditions and I saw a number of happy tourists...occasion important enough to fly him up from South Australia to demonstrate a few of their latest products...operated Miners Den in Whitehorse Road, Mitcham, Victoria. He is an extremely compe- 14 AUSTRALIAN COLD...largest range of both new and used detectors in Australia all at unbeatable prices. 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The mo8t -irr1portant...barren detritus, or, as in California and Victoria (Australia), by thick flows of basaltic lava; and ''...the telluride-impregnated schists of W e·s tern Australia. In the Palroozoic rocks, examples are the '' |  | | Journal (issue) | | Pty Ltd PO Box 537, Torrensville Plaza, South Australia 5031 MINELAB Visit our website www.minelab.com...CREEK REVISITED It's 5km south-east of Creswick in Victoria and it's productive ROAD-TESTING THE FISHER 1270...would go detecting to north Queensland or Western Australia for two months. by Jack Lange Above: Ian's jar...minister, Edmund Barton, on one side and Queen Victoria on the other. I also found a store token dated...Presumptive to the Throne'. TREASURE ENTERPRISES OF AUSTRALIA Leading Specialists in Prospecting & Treasure |  | | Book (edition) | | Statistics - SournH AUSTRALIA . 3 GOLD COPPER é LEAD AND SILVER OTHER METALS . WESTERN AUSTRALIA FOLD ; OTHER...section of a portion of the Sanitiegetsdine Sheps shire . 5 44,—Ore deposits in pagel are ; . 45.—Section...feet of eruptive rocks, ¢.g., the deep leads of Victoria or California, does not seem PART I CLASSIFICATION...It is remarkable that the auriferous gravels of Victoria are of approximately the same geological age as...been filled by the outpouring of volcanic matter. Victoria does not generally possess facilities for the |
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